Reduplication and Imperfectivity in Jejara (Para Naga)
Description
Jejara is a language spoken in the Naga Hills in Northwest Myanmar by the Jejara people, also known as Para Naga. The peoples identified as Naga represent linguistically at least two distinct Tibeto-Burman branches, Mizo-Kuki-Chin and Bodo-Konyak-Jinghpaw (Burling 2003:174). It is not unique to find that Jejara indicates imperfectivity by a postverbal particle. Its form is lu. This particle indicates the ongoing nature of the state or activity encoded by a main verb. What is interesting is to...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2015-12 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95250 |
Source: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 8 (2015): 121 -132 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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